I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
There is a national climate here. We're seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division. — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo Copy Share Image
If the earth surface wud talk, then its speech will be rated Adults Only — Patric Bensen Copy Share Image
I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I listen to Alicia practice a speech for class, and I don’t look at the clock even once. In fact, for the… — Nate LeBoutillier Copy Share Image
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country… — Charb Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise… — Ronald L. Buckwalter Copy Share Image
Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I was falling asleep I would practice my Grammys speech when I was a little kid. — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I hate it when I'm drinking and somebody tries to correct my Vodkabulary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best public speakers are those who seem to genuinely enjoy giving a speech. Because they’re relaxed, we’re relaxed.” — Richard Zeoli Copy Share Image
“When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
